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Misool Eco Resort: "Well Preserved Santuary", Mar, 2019, by Brigitte Lacouture, AK, US ( Contributor 15 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 11105 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
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Comments	My husband and I visited Misool in March 2019 and stayed in large water cottage with another couple on the lagoon for 7 nights. The water cottage was nicely appointed and uncluttered and the bed was comfortable with plenty of deck space. They have excellent plumbing and plenty of hot water for showers. Electricity is consistent, mostly obtained from solar cells and provided from batteries where the solar power is stored. As per recent reader reports, we found the resort well run and the staff friendly and helpful. Food was excellent, varied, and plentiful. Internet is available in the area around the dive center, though given the remote location it is slow, but you will be able to send and receive e-mail. They have a good handle on mosquitos and barely found it an issue. While you are at dinner, the staff closes up your room and arranges the netting around your bed, so the only potential issue is when dining when I used a bit of bug spray, but my husband did not at all. The AC conditioner is only for cooling down the bed area, which it did well enough when the mosquito netting was down, trapping in the cooled air. The rooms are open, so cooling the whole room is not possible, but was not required either as we slept comfortably inside our net cocoon. The snorkeling and diving is amazing the reef colors are all over the spectrum! We saw numerous species of both hard and soft corals in a plethora of different colors and lots of species: humphead parrotfish, giant sweetlips, giant grouper, large schools of jacks, napoleon wrasse, blacktip sharks, lobster, cuttlefish, frogfish, mantas, hawksbill turtles, banded coral shrimp, alligator fish, epaulette sharks, wobbegong sharks, octopus, mantis shrimp, pygmy seahorses, nudibranchs, and orangutan crabs. We also went snorkeling in the lagoon right off the cottage and found abundant life there as well. Currents were not strong, but were present almost on all dives. Make sure to do at least 1 night dive; they are often hit and miss, but the night dive we did here was one of the best we have ever done and had creatures through out the entire dive. This is a great place for UW photography and the variety of fish is astronomical. As mentioned in other reports, it is good to have a nitrox certification and almost everyone dove on nitrox 32. Bring a magnifying glass to see the pygmy seahorses and other small critters. Also bring a rash guard for snorkeling or paddling, footwear for walking on the hot boards of the dock, and a hat as all are prudent for skin protection as the sun is quite intense at the resort which is only 2 degrees south of the equator. It is a long trip to get to the resort; we stopped on the way over in Singapore for 3 days to get rid of some of the jet lag before going onwards (Amoy Hotel was good and had lots of character). Our stay of 7 days is the minimum, a few more days would have been good especially as we found the day trip to the jellyfish lake, pictographs, and islands viewpoint well worth doing though it cut the dives down on that day to one (we did a low energy dusk dive to watch the mandarin fish perform).
Websites	Misool Eco Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Tahiti, St. Vincent, Borneo, Curacao, Bonaire, Cozumel, Saba, GBR, Cayman Islands, New Caledonia
Closest Airport	Sorong	Getting There	Fly direct LA to Singapore and spend a few days then fly Singapore-Jakarta-Sorong where you take a ~ 4 hr boat ride.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	28-29°C / 82-84°F	Wetsuit Thickness	4
Water Visibility	20-25 M / 66-82 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	60 minute dive times
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
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Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Report currently has 2 Helpful votes

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By Renee Ross in OR, US at Sep 18, 2019 18:10 EST

Nice trip report! Is there a reason you flew from Singapore through Jakarta, rather than through Manado to Sorong?

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Dive Review of Misool Eco Resort in Indonesia/Raja Ampat

Misool Eco Resort: "Well Preserved Santuary", Mar, 2019,

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Dive Review of Misool Eco Resort in
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